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ADO.NET Data services represent today one of the most powerful alternatives to build RESTful services in the .NET platform. This framework basically creates a RESTful API on top of any IQueryable data source. Most of the steps required to publish a set...
After having playing with the current bits of OpenRasta (OR) for a while, I am now able to see great advantages in using this framework over other existing frameworks for building RESTful services such as WCF or the ASP.NET MVC. Let’s explore some of...
OpenRasta (OR) is the name of a new open source framework for developing Restful applications (Web applications or services) created by Sebastien Lambla . As the ASP.NET MVC, this framework is also an implementation of the MVC pattern, which focus mainly...
Many of the features available out of the box today in the ASP.NET MVC framework are only intended to develop web applications using REST principles. There is not support for accepting incoming messages encoded as JSON or plain old XML (POX), or even...
When Mutual Certificate Authentication is configured for REST services, both, the client and the service perform identity verification or authentication through X509 certificates. The client authenticates the service during the initial SSL handshake,...
It is very common for WCF services that work as Ajax callbacks and ASP.NET pages that live in the same web application to share a common security context for the authenticated user. However, in order to make this happens, the ASP.NET compatibility mode...
Some people have been asking around in the MSDN forums or stackoverflow about a possible way to pass form-urlencoded data to an existing WCF REST service. Although this is not a core feature in WCF from my point view, there is still some support for addressing...
Streaming large content such as media content, images or files is a common scenario for RESTful services. If a scenario like this is not well addressed or implemented on the service side, there is a high risk of consuming server resources like memory...
It’s very common when developing RESTful services to authenticate users against a proprietary user database. This is generally done with a combination of username and password through http basic authentication. Unfortunately, basic authentication is tied...
Doug Purdy and Chris Sells announced today in the mix the availability of two new DSLs for RESTful services. MUrl for defining RESTful clients, and MService for defining the service implementation. More information about MUrl can be found in the Doug...
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